Until hate does us apart

By PAP Magazine Editorial

Black leather and studded details create a visual grammar of tension and fragile intimacy between two figures staged in a muted domestic interior. One figure wears a corseted studded glove and rests hands on the other's shoulders, who sits on the floor in velvet-textured black shorts and studded leather boots, ringed fingers suspended mid-gesture. The palette is drained — cool greys, off-white walls, a ribbed sofa — evoking the faded colour casts of analog film and early-2000s editorial melancholy. Hair is styled slick and wet, heavy smoky eyeliner anchors the gaze, and the light is soft yet directional, carving shadow into skin. A close frame reveals an open-neck knit sweater layered with a wire pendant necklace, the styling nodding to punk domesticity and queer visual codes. The credits — Giada Speri, Pablo Flavia, Giulia Risaliti, Giovanni Zummo, Angela Mandaglio, Alice Mengo, Giorgia Maestri, Marica Ranno, Raffaele Capuano — trace a collaborative narrative that interrogates love's darker counterpart without romanticizing it.